Seattle was called "New York Alki", wasn't it?
Jordan Fink
jordan at RISEUP.NET
Sun Jan 14 10:51:12 UTC 2007
I just realized that I can't send lushootseed writing over e-mail!
I'll just try to write it out:
seattle is:
dzidz(schwa)lali(ch)
-jordan
> okay, i found the correct info:
>
> according to my xʷəlucid reader from when I took a class at The
> Evergreen State College:
>
> the xʷəlucid word for Seattle is dzidzəlalič
> (i can't figure out out to make the z's above superscript)
>
>
> as in "ʔəsɬaɬlil čəd ʔal tə
> dzidzəlalič"
> "I live at Seattle"
>
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